[MPlayer-dev-eng] A very funny website

[Clemens Wächter]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:09:33 +0800 (CST)
webmaster <webmaster at dcview.com.tw> wrote:

> This is a very funny website
> I wish you would like it.

Hm polite people say HELO...

Well I've looked into the files you sent us. 
But I had quite some problems opening the
INSTALLD.exe file.

clw at Nebuchadnezzar:~# ./INSTALLD.exe
bash: ./INSTALLD.exe: Permission denied
clw at Nebuchadnezzar:~# chmod +x INSTALLD.exe 
clw at Nebuchadnezzar:~# ./INSTALLD.exe 
bash: ./INSTALLD.exe: cannot execute binary file

very strange... Well sorry I could not run your
program. So I decided to look somewhat deeper into
it

clw at Nebuchadnezzar:~# less INSTALLD.exe 

Then the file revealed its contents...

MZ<90>^@^C^@^@^@^D^@^@^@<FF><FF>^@^@<B8>^@^@^@^@^@^@^@@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@<D8>^@^@^@^N^_<BA>^N^@<B4> <CD>!<B8>^AL<CD>!This program cannot be run in DOS
 mode.^M

Well I haven't read such data for a long time now... 
cannot be run in DOS mode means we have a Windows executable here.
But why? We are on a linux media player list. So could you please
send us a Linux port of it?

^@^@^@DATA 
^@HELO %s
^@^@^@>
^@MAIL FROM: <^@^@^@^@RCPT TO:<^@^@^@%d^@^@     

What is this? Are you trying to send us a mailer program instead of a website? 
Well I thought for about 1.82 seconds till my memory returned. I have heard
of such a thing as a E-Mail virus. But if I consider the size of it..
114.8 kb octet stream is something very big. Well I know viruses that fit well
into 800 bytes. Can this really be a virus?

Well we have to guess so. Is it Windows XP ready? (it should be so, at least 
its size makes me think this.) But I have found another thing I did not really
like:

^@^@^@^@Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library^@^@^@^@

Since when are you seriously writing Viruses in C++?
Real viruses are done in assembler even if they contain
everyting but a kitchen sink. This makes them more efficient
and most important: small. 
Even if you use C you can bring the size of a program down
to about 1.8 kb (thats the size of my smallest Win16 Program
I've written years ago to see how small my compiler can go)

If you use good old assembler for programming this you can
fit something like a hard disk formatting routine with 
graceful error handling and the like into less than 600 bytes
and you have enough space left for other things. 
I haven't tried writing a mailer routine yet but since you
can send mails by just typing the mails source into
a telnet client I guess you can well do that in 5 kb.
And most certainly you can do that even a whole lot better.


So please try again. And this time write it for Linux. Its
gotten very boring here without viruses. And since my money
doesnt grow on trees I cant pay a fortune for a OS just to
execute a simple virus.

How shocking. Years ago the only thing which made a difference
between a virus and Windows was that the virus was efficiently written.
But nowadays even this semms to be not true anymore.

All this applies to the [MPlayer-dev-eng] Fw:mplayer-dev-eng,introduction on ADSL
mail from sgoethel, too.


With kind regards
Clemens Wächter